With online course development on the rise the challenge for instructors is to enhance and ensure learning through this modality. When direct contact with students in a traditional face-to-face classroom is not feasible, instructors must be innovative in content delivery and provide for students a sense of instructor presence. It has been suggested that the online instructor is the critical factor for a successful learning experience. Indicators of instructor presence include behaviors such as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Video Technology, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Web 2.0 Technologies, Social...

The Partnership Assessment Project (PAP) sponsored by The Partnership for Arts, Culture, and Education in Dallas (Texas) examined the effect of community arts and culture programming on achievement in language arts, particularly writing, among students in elementary urban schools. The project spanned four years and constituted a three-year pilot study that laid the groundwork for a one-year experimental research study. Teachers in the PAP showed high levels of commitment; four teachers...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Cultural Activities, Cultural Enrichment,...

Decades of research have focused on the impact of summer learning loss and effective tools in stemming the flow of knowledge lost during summer break. While reading lists have become a standard practice for addressing students' needs to maintain learning levels over the summer months, very little research has been conducted on the book lists themselves. This study examined the books chosen for the summer reading lists for rising eighth graders in a single district. Several variables, including...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Summer Programs, Reading Materials, Books, Grade 8, Maintenance, Reading Skills,...

A study examined teachers' strategic use of a recommended curriculum through the lenses of the three perspectives of fidelity, mutual adaptability, and enactment. The recommended curriculum under consideration was an integrated curriculum developed to prepare middle school students to attend a performance of the opera "Turandot." For 40 years, the Dallas (Texas) Opera has brought 13,000 students annually to live performances of traditional operas. In 1993 the Dallas Opera embraced the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary...

Mark Greenberg: Kitchen Tunks and Parlor Songs In the 1980s, Mark Greenberg interviewed and recorded old-time, grassroots Vermont musicians and produced both a video documentary, The Unbroken Circle (1985), and a CD anthology, Kitchen Tunks and Parlor Songs (2003). In this Vermont Humanities Council presentation, he discusses collecting oral histories in Vermont and examines how earlier music survived in the twentieth century and how it was affected by social and technological developments.
Topics: Vermont, Woodstock, Woodstock Community Television, WCTV8, Public Access TV, Community Media, PEG,...

Response to intervention (RTI) is a general education intervention system used by classroom teachers to assist struggling learners and provide individualized, academic support to help all students succeed academically. This process is also vital as a prereferral process as a prerequisite to special education referrals and eligibility determination. Identification and prereferral processes are the responsibility of the general education teacher as the first point of contact with a student who...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Curriculum, Response to Intervention,...

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Topics: louisiana, alexandria, website, tunks, hacked, december, 2010, random